Ceejay started her research career as an undergraduate researcher at UCLA in the Jacobsen lab, using molecular biology techniques to understand epigenetic processes in Arabidopsis. She received a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from UCLA in 2017.
Ceejay continued to deepen her mechanistic interest in gene regulation during her PhD, conducted in the Liau lab at Harvard University. Working at the interface at biology and chemistry, she integrated CRISPR technologies, chemical biology tools and genomics to understand how chromatin regulators and transcription factors function, particularly in interaction with small molecules.
Upon completion of her PhD, Ceejay joined Prof. Ben Lehner’s group as a postdoctoral fellow. During her time here, she hopes to understand how specificity and function are encoded in transcription factors.